Edward Burgess Hudson was the founder of Country Life

Country Life (magazine)

Country Life is a British weekly magazine, based in London at 110 Southwark Street, and owned by IPC Media, a Time Warner subsidiary.- Topics :The magazine covers the pleasures and joys of rural life, as well as the concerns of rural people...

 magazine in 1897.

Career

Country Life was an early lifestyle magazine. Edward Hudson was the owner of Lindisfarne Castle

Lindisfarne Castle

Lindisfarne Castle is a 16th-century castle located on Holy Island, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, much altered by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1901. The island is accessible from the mainland at low tide by means of a causeway.-History:...

 (1901-21) and two other Lutyens

Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA was a British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era...

-designed houses, Deanery Gardens

Deanery Gardens

The Deanery and Deanery Garden is a garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll, with a house designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, in Sonning, Berkshire, England....

 in Sonning

Sonning

Sonning, occasionally called Sonning-on-Thames is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Wokingham in the English county of Berkshire, a few miles east of Reading. The village is situated on the River Thames and was described by Jerome K...

 (c1899-1907), designed and built 1899–1901, and Plumpton Place

Plumpton Place

Plumpton Place is a Grade 2 listed Elizabethan manor house in Plumpton, East Sussex, England. The house is on the English Heritage register.Plumpton Place sits close to Plumpton to the east of the church and Plumpton Agricultural College...

, Sussex (1928-36 but not occupied), both featured in the magazine in 1903 and 1933 respectively.

External links

• Country Life Website